Last time I had a video card lose a fan, the whole system would go into shutdown, so not sure if it's *only* just cooling, but sounds like the card itself, such as the actual output chips are dying/bad. Are you using any display adapters? My current system with a Nvidia 1070 card I use 3x DisplayPort to HDMI adapters, and after a week or two of uptime, I'll wake up the displays in the morning for work, and randomly a display won't get signal. I have to reset the stupid adapter to make it work again. Really annoying, but could be something similar if you are using active adapters on the outputs too. -mb On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:21 AM Jim wrote: > There's a fan built into the side of the case. I could take the side out > of the case and put a small fan in there aimed at the video card. Right > now Psensor says the video card is at 55°C, but I just started the machine > a few minutes ago. After it warms up, the card stays around 80°C. Still, > if something in the card is going bad, it may act up at lower temperatures > than it should. Also it can't hurt to cool it down. > > > On 8/26/19 7:19 AM, Austin Godber wrote: > > Anecdotally speaking, nearly all of my electronics have been freaking out > due to the heat, this includes: > > * google chromecast not playing > * roku sound going out periodically > * sonos bridge needing restarting daily > * VR laptop only works if I put a box fan in front of it > > You problems sound like they could be heat related. If you have a box fan > of some sort and you can improve airflow in your machine, you might be able > to test it. Or maybe your case could be better ventilated. > > Austin > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:22 PM Jim wrote: > >> I had thought that it might be getting old, but I only bought the video >> card new 3 years ago. How long should one last? Psensor shows the >> temperature of the card at 77°C, but the specs show the maximum allowed >> temperature is 102°C. It just started doing this a few days ago. I guess >> I could go into my parts box and find another video card to put in there >> until I get a chance to buy a new one. >> >> thanks >> On 8/25/19 10:13 PM, Harold Hartley wrote: >> >> I might mean that the hardware on the video card may be getting a little >> to warm or wearing out. Something to think about if it’s a dinosaur. >> >> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, at 21:56, Jim wrote: >> >> I have a dinosaur running Kubuntu 18.04 with a Gigabyte P35-DS3L >> motherboard and an Intel Core 2 duo E6850 CPU and 8GB RAM. For a video >> card, I have a GeForce GT 520. A few days ago it started acting up. >> Now, at random, it acts as if the video card shuts off. Both monitors >> give a no signal message. However, the software I had running continues >> running. I know this because the dinosaur still plays the audio. The >> keyboard doesn't respond. crtl+alt+backspace doesn't work. I can ssh >> into it, but it won't reboot. The only thing I can do to recover is to >> hold down the power switch until it shuts off, then turn it on again. >> >> Any idea what this might be? >> >> thanks >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> -- >> Harold Hartley >> 17632 N. 5th place >> Phoenix, AZ 85022 >> wheelie207@ownmail.net >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss